Button or the like



Jan. 12,- 1937. E. D. JANES BUTTON OR THE LIKE Filed Dec. 12, 1955 mvzm-on 5 'BY M ORNE Pasti- J... 1:2," 1' 937 PATENT OFFICE 2,067,223 BUTTON OR THE LIKE Edmund D. Janes, Middlebury, Conn., assignor to Scovill Manufacturing Company, Waterbury, Conn., a corporation of Connecticut Application December 12, 1935, Serial No. 54,050

4 Claims.

The present invention relates to buttons and the like which have a design, character or other ornamentation on their top, and aims to provide certain improvements therein.

Heretofore it has been impossible to feed buttons having a design or ornamentation on their top, in automatic button feed mechanisms so as to definitely locate or position the design at the button-attaching station whereby to insure attaching the button to a garment or other article with the design in desired position. To do this, of course, is highly desirable, since it will thereby be possible for the design on the buttons, which may be the manufacturer's trade mark, to be always in correct position on the garments. Such proper positioning will not only enhance the appearance of the garments, but will also enable others, in viewing the garment, to read the trade-mark on the buttons at a glance, thereby adding advertising value of benefit to the manufacturer.

In a co-pending application of Jerome G. Wolff, Serial No. 54,049, filed December 12, 1935, there are disclosed various types of buttons having a design, ornamentation or trade mark on their top adapted for use in button-feeding and attaching machines, said buttons having means thereon which bears a definite relation to the design and adapted for cooperative action with means on the button-feedingmechanism for orienting the design so that it will always have a definite position when it reaches the button-attaching station. In the various modifications shown in the Wolfi application aforementioned, a

preliminary setting of the body portion with redirect registration between the design on the shell and the body portion by providing on the shell an integral tab or lip, which, in the assembling of the shell and body portion, is bent back down over the body portion and is thereat adapted for cooperative engagement with means on the button-feeding mechanism to definitely orient the design for presentation to the button-attaching or setting station.

The invention will be better understood from the detailed description which follows, when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a tack button embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the button shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a section taken substantially along the plane of the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

The drawing shows my invention as applied to a conventional form of tack button, which comprises a cap or shell in of generally circular configuration having an inturned marginal lip ll engaging over a complemental upturned marginal lip l2 on a flange l3 extending outwardly from a cylindrical hub It, the bottom of which has an inturned flange l5 defining an axial opening. The parts l2 to I5 may be said to constitute the body portion of the button. Mounted within the button between the cap l0 and the flange I3 is an anvil plate I6, and disposed between said anvil plate and the inturned flange I5 is a filler element ll having an axial opening therethrough in alignment with the opening through the flange l5 for 0 receiving the pin of a tack or staple in the course of attaching the button to a garment or other article. The cap or shell ill on its top is provided with an ornamental design l8, herein shown as consisting of the word or trade-mark Scovill, the name of the assignee of this invention, disposed across the button in a straight line. Obviously the design may consist of any word, character, emblem or ornamentation, as desired. The tack button thus far described is merely by way of illustration and the invention is not limited thereto but has general application to any type of tack button or top shell button, as will presently appear.

According to my invention the cap or shell I!) is formed with an integral lip or tab l9 which bears a deflniterelation to the design It! on the top of the shell, and as herein shown the tab extends along the horizontal diameter oi the cap or shell and has lateral edges 20 extending parallel to said diameter. The tab l9 maintains its definite relation to the design on the top after the assembly of the cap upon the body, in the course of which assembly the tab I9 is bent back over the flange iii of the body portion.

The tab I!) being integral with the top shell I0, provides a protrusion at the back of the flange 13, which, when the button is fed down the usual track or slideway of a button-feeding mechanism, 50 is adapted for cooperative engagement with a pointer or other means to definitely orient the design for presentation of the button with the design in proper relation to the button-attaching or setting station. The bent back tab It. as

however, being formed of relatively thin sheet metal will not lnterferewith the use of the button after it has been attached to a garment or otherv article.

Although I have shown and described my invention as applied to a tack button of the top shell type, it is to be understood that the concept embodied therein is also applicable to snap fastener elements and other devices which are subject to analogous problems in assembling, hence I do not wish to be limited to the present dis- 2. A button of the top shell type, comprising a top shell and a body over which the shell is mounted, said shell having a design on the top thereof and an integral tab extending over the body of the button and bearing a definite relation to the design. V

3. A button or the like, comprising a top and a body having a flange underlying the top, said top having a design thereon and an element integral with the top bearing a definite relation to the design overlying the flange for registering the design with a button-attaching mechanism.

4. A button or the like, comprising a top shell and a body over which the shell is mounted hav ing a flange underlying the top, said top shell having a design thereon and a tab integral with the top shellbearing a definite relation to the design thereon overlying the flange for registering the design with a button-attaching mechanism.

7 EDMUND D. JANES. 

